politics, away from, you know, just the gut wrenching feeling all of us feel for mccabe s pension. trust me he is going to be fine. there is probably a lot of book agents calling him right now. let s talk about mueller. because that s what this is about. looking at what happened tonight outside the context of the russia investigation you re missing the big story here. and i think, you know, just focusing on why would they have done this, right, because of mccabe s knowledge of the investigation early on he was part of the investigation. and then, of course, of his contemporaneous knowledge of why comey was fired. those two things are relevant not just for obstruction of justice but also for potential collusion, which, of course, we know the special prosecutor is looking for. so are the trump people stupid? because they have now unleashed mccabe. and i have to believe they are not. and what they probably did is they weighed the the they weighed these two things, firing mccabe and le
who were reviewing the fbi s handling of the investigation into hillary clinton s email server and that he had leaked information to a reporter about the bureau s investigation into the clinton foundation. and in a statement, sessions said, in part, the fbi expects every employee to adhere to the highest standards of honesty, integrity and accountability. as the proposal stated all fbi employees know that lacking candor under oath results in dismissal and that our integrity is our brand. mccabe is firing back though claiming everything he did was above board and he is being targeted in an effort to discredit him as a witness against the president and special counsel robert mueller s investigation. in a lengthy statement, he says, in part, the oig s focus on me in this report became a part of an unprecedented effort by the administration driven by the president himself to remove me from my position, destroy my reputation, and possibly strip me of a pension that i worked 21 years to earn
have political panel to weigh n joining us kevin, vice president at hamburger gibson creative and alexander smith, executive director of america rising. great to be with you. thanks for having me. eboni: i m going to lay out a starting point and have you weigh in. it seems that there are two competing narratives as it relates to mccabe s firing, on one hand many are saying that this is political strictly, that this is the president bushing an agenda to discredit the whole fbi and all of those organizations, a bit of a comey grudge, fill in the blanks. other side that mccabe was fired for the fbi s own professional of responsibility and the inspector general s report said that he basically lied under oath, he was a leak and various other reasons are called for firing. alex, i will start with you, can two things be true at the same time, can it be true that the president has a vested interest in seeing mccabe and the mueller investigation be discredited on the front end and could it
permitting democrats to ask questions or the release of the two memos that we have seen and i think this has been at play here. eboni: we will see if we can get this open. kevin, do you think democrats are doing disservice here by not waiting on the full report from the ig s office or any other details around exactly why mccabe was firing and really jump to go a conclusion, some of them that this is all a political stunt and this is all the president working to kind of undermine the credibility of mueller? sure, it s on the part of the president tweeting last night even before deputy mccabe director was notified that he was fired from the position. we have more questions and answer. alex and i are in agreement that we should have open hearings that we should release the oig reports so that transparency are in public and house and senate judiciary committees should weigh in on whether the firings, jim comey or andrew mccabe are political in nature by the white house. eboni: sure, spea
true sweet 16 university of maryland baltimore county they make history in this year s ncaa basketball tournament. and more on the firing of the fbi s former deputy director. what the absence of andrew mccabe will mean for the future of the russia probe. mueller investigation is a zombie investigation. the dossier has been compromised. it s shown to be not worthy of investigation. and now mccabe s involvement further undermined the whole russia probe. . . .